Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Thrilling and delicious complement to any dining experience.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

The greatest amusement park in the world is wall-to-wall farting dogs, puking rats, and cows with exposed breasts for the whole family.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.